Scientists have shown that direct emissions of a powerful greenhouse gas from certain pasture types are lower than previously thought - meaning the climate impact of grass-fed cattle herds may be overestimated.

Sheep farmers Peter Williams and Bedwyr Jones are the first to bring the ‘fat tailed’ Damara breed into the UK.

In order to collaboratively investigate ways to deliver nature-friendly farming, 120 farms across the South Downs have formed into six ‘farm clusters’.

Lucerne has largely been seen as a cutting crop in the UK, but a new on-farm study will look at how the crop can be used for grazing ewes and lambs.

Fourth-year results from the RamCompare project reveal seven different breeds at the top of the leader tables for carcase traits.

A new mastitis test to reduce antibiotic use on dairy farms is being trialled through an on-farm ‘field lab’ with Innovative Farmers.

Timely treatment and effective prevention is the only way to reduce potentially significant losses caused by coccidiosis in calves.

Liver fluke cysts are shed onto pasture from infected mud snails and we know they can survive for many months given the right conditions, but can they survive in silage?

The annual barometer of native livestock breed numbers, the Rare Breeds Survival Trust’s watchlist, has been released.But what could some of these breeds could offer UK agriculture in the future?

The challenges of farming within extreme weather conditions was the main topic discusses at a virtual event, the first in a series to be hosted by the knowledge exchange network, Agricology.